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The surface air warming over the Arctic has been almost twice as much as the global average in recent decades. In this region, unprecedented amounts of smoldering peat fires have been identified as a major emission source of climate-warming agents. While much is known about…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Siberia, brown carbon, aerosols, smoldering, peatland fires, particulate emissions
An instrumented NASA P-3B aircraft was used for airborne sampling of trace gases in a plume that had emanated from a small forest understory fire in Georgia, USA. The plume was sampled at its origin to derive emission factors and followed ∼ 13.6 km downwind to observe chemical…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: airborne measurements, trace gases, Georgia, biomass burning, plume
Low intensity prescribed fire is widely practiced in seasonally dry forests in many countries to reduce fuel loads and the risk of uncontrollable wildfires. Associated with low intensity fire is the heating and alteration of organic matter of the litter and surface soil to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, charcoal, PyC - pyrogenic carbon, SOC - soil organic carbon, litter
Part 1: Northern Utah Wood Smoke Survey. Joel Karmazyn, Environmental Scientist, Department of Environmental Quality. The purpose of the survey was to provide detailed information on the wood-burning practices of residents in the seven northern counties that currently fail to…
Person: Karmazyn, Ackerly
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Outreach, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Utah, wood smoke
Aim: This paper presents a new global burned area (BA) product developed within the framework of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme, along with a first assessment of its potentials for atmospheric and carbon cycle modelling. Innovation: Methods…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire disturbance, burned area, essential climate variables, atmospheric emissions, remote sensing, satellite observations, MERIS, fire size, wildfires, Europe, climatology, disturbance, fire management, forest management
Non-deforestation fire – i.e., fire that is typically followed by the recovery of natural vegetation – is arguably the most influential disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, thereby playing a major role in carbon exchanges and affecting many climatic processes. The radiative…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fossil fuel combustion, Canada
As the permafrost region warms, its large organic carbon pool will be increasingly vulnerable to decomposition, combustion, and hydrologic export. Models predict that some portion of this release will be offset by increased production of Arctic and boreal biomass; however, the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: permafrost, organic carbon, Arctic region, boreal, biomass, wildfires, C - carbon, soil temperature, fire management, streams, tundra
Chronic nitrogen deposition has measureable impacts on soil and plant health. We investigate burning emissions from biomass grown in areas of high and low NO x deposition. Gas and aerosol-phase emissions were measured as a function of photochemical aging in an environmental…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California
Keywords: NO - nitrogen oxide, nitrogen deposition, laboratory experiments, air quality
The Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED3) and the FAOSTAT Emissions database, containing estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from biomass burning and peat fires, are compared. The two datasets formed the basis for several analyses in the fifth Assessment Report of the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: greenhouse gases, peat fires, FAOSTAT, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, deforestation, fire management, forest management, smoke management, peatlands, savannas
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, computer programs, fuel models, Oregon, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management
A book based on a conference of the same name held 22-24 October, 1979 at the University of New Brunswick. There are 15 chapters, including an introduction by the editors. The remaining 14 chapters are divided into 5 sections: Past and present fire frequencies; Physical effects…
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, fire frequency, fire management, jack pine, black spruce, ignitions, lichen, northern ecosystems, organic mat, peat deposits, permafrost, tundra, wilderness management, biomass burning, climate change, fire interval, regeneration, smoke management, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Russia, Europe
Describes a new wildfire effects appraisal system developed for Wisconsin.
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire benefits, fire damage, fire management, valuation procedure, management plan, Wisconsin, aesthetics, agriculture, air quality, catastrophic fires, environmental impact analysis, fire intensity, statistical analysis, wildlife habitat management
This paper reports the result of tetroon measurements of dispersion and turbulence in the Geysers Geothermal Area in the Coast Range of northern California.
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: dispersion, drainage, overstory, runoff, sloping terrain, statistical analysis
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire, meteorology
An introduction to the spatial and temporal diversity of fire is given for northern circumpolar ecosystems. Both physical and biological parameters make northern ecosystems different from those in temperate regions; these parameters, such as long day length through the summer…
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, fire, fire management, regeneration, resource management, climate change, fire interval, northern ecosystems, permafrost, smoke management, biomass burning
Patterns of undisturbed nutrient cycling in northern ecosystems and the impact of fire on nutrient cycling are reviewed and discussed. The various effects of fire on ecosystem nutrient cycling may be broadly subdivided into (1) nutrient redistribution during fire, and (2)…
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: nutrient cycling, soils, biomass consumption, nitrogen loss, northern ecosystems, soil chemistry, Canada, ash, biomass, boreal forests, convection, decomposition, fire frequency, fire intensity, leaching, light, microorganisms, N - nitrogen, nutrients, pH, volatilization
Wildfires are one of the main disturbances that impact structure, sustainability, and carbon budget of Siberian forests, as well as infrastructure and human safety. The Zabaikal region in the south of Siberia is characterized by one of the highest levels of fire activity in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: crown fires, fire frequency, fire size, fuel loading, post-fire recovery, wildfires, Asia, Russia, Siberia, C - carbon, regeneration, fire management, forest management, Pinus sylvestris, Scots pine, area burned, carbon emissions, fuel loads, post-fire regeneration, repeated burning, steppification, Zabaikal region
Natural carbon sinks currently absorb approximately half of the anthropogenic CO2 emitted by fossil fuel burning, cement production and land-use change. However, this airborne fractionmay change in the future depending on the emissions scenario. An important issue in developing…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, carbon dioxide, fire management, smoke management, carbon cycle, Earth System, negative emissions, carbon dioxide removal, Mitigation Scenarios
Environment and Climate Change Canada's FireWork air quality (AQ) forecast system for North America with near-real-time biomass burning emissions has been running experimentally during the Canadian wildfire season since 2013. The system runs twice per day with model…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, Canada, air quality, climate change, pollution, fire management, smoke management, multiscale gem model, particulate matter, transport model, C - carbon, predictions, simulation
Boreal fires have immediate effects on regional carbon budgets by emitting CO2 into the atmosphere at the time of burning, but they also have legacy effects by initiating a long-term carbon sink during post-fire vegetation recovery. Quantifying these different effects on the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, boreal forests, Global Vegetation Model, climate change, Interior Alaska, burned area, forest, dynamics, regime, 20th Century, temperature
Transboundary haze pollution as a result of indiscriminate land clearance by fire has significant health and economic impacts on member states of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN). Meanwhile the impact of the associated carbon emissions, ecological disturbance…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Prevention, Fire Behavior, Regulations and Legislation, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Economics, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, forest management, smoke management, land management, air pollution, biodiversity, haze, peat swamp forest, socioeconomics, Southeast Asia, Borneo, conservation, Kalimantan, mortality, drought
From the text...'results on the relationship between recurrent peatland fires and estimated carbon emissions.' © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, peatlands
Forest fire, an important agent for change in many forest ecosystems, plays an important role in atmospheric chemical cycles and the carbon cycle. The primary emissions from forest fire, CO2, CO, CH4, long-chained hydrocarbons and volatile organic oxides, however, have not been…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, C - carbon, China, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, greenhouse gases, mountains, remote sensing, wildfires, forest fire, Gases Estimation, Daxing'an Mountains, China, fuel load estimation, Fuel Load Consumption, greenhouse gases, C - carbon, carbon emissions, biomass, mountains, landscape, severity
Vegetation fires are a complex phenomenon in the Earth system with many global impacts, including influences on global climate. Estimating carbon emissions from vegetation fires relies on a carbon mass balance technique that has evolved with two different interpretations.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, vegetation surveys, fire management, Transform Infrared-Spectroscopy, trace gas emissions, black carbon, biomass, ecosystems, wildfire, systems, Cycle, sink
Size-resolved effective density, mixing state, and hygroscopicity of smoke particles from five kinds of agricultural residues burning were characterized using an aerosol chamber system, including a volatility/hygroscopic tandem differential mobility analyzer (V/H-TDMA) combined…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, Asia, China, aerosols, agriculture, air quality, C - carbon, particulates, fire management, smoke management, Smoke Particle, density, Volatility, hygroscopicity, APM, V, H-TDMA